Cow Husbandry Generating Big Profits

 

Currently, breeding milk cow husbandry generates a stable income for Vietnamese farmers. A farm can earn money from selling milk, cow and even cow pat. A good farmer can gain 5,000 litres per cow per year with average price of some VND7,100 per kilogramme. Therefore, farmers can earn over VND35 million/cow/year from milk sales. Meanwhile, they can get around VND10 million when selling a veal calf of 12 months and around VND2 million for an old milk cow. In total, they can earn VND50 million/cow/year. Farmers with big farms can achieve a better income. Breeders can use annual profits for cow development and covering other expenses.

 

Additionally, farmers can get daily milk; meanwhile, coffee, pepper and rubber growers have to wait several years to gain bumper crops. Additionally, cows eat straw, grass and industrial and agricultural by-products but they produce valuable products like beef and milk. This helps increase profits for milk cow breeding, particularly for farmers who want to maximise available food sources such as natural grass and maize. Grass and maize help raise milk output and cows’ health. Moreover, price of food for cows is lower than that for other cattle. If farmers select high-quality grass containing much energy and protein, they will remarkably reduce costs for food.

 

Currently, Vietnam has many milk processing plants which are ready to buy milk at stable prices. Farmers can receive the payment once a month or every two weeks. This is an advantage compared to coffee, pepper and cashew cultivation as their prices can fluctuate weekly and the growers can only receive money late in the year. Notably, farmers have to spend lots of time on taking care of these crops.

 

In China, the Ministry of Agriculture applies many measures to protect rights of cow breeders. It joins hands with enterprises to buy material milk, develop good varieties and improve breeding skills for farmers. In Vietnam, the state has also implemented many policies for milk cow husbandry like developing material milk area, managing and checking milk purchases and providing training courses on milk breeding for farmers.